Architecture is more than what the eye sees. We as humans walk into space and buildings without any realisation that we are entering another world metaphorically, where the architect knows exactly where and how you are going to manoeuvre in his/her creation, if it is designed well, because that’s how they created it. Circulation and the arrangement of spaces inside a building, are two of the most key elements in any great piece of architecture and in this essay I am going to study and analyse two totally different buildings with the goal of finding out how circulation and volumetric arrangement affected the design process and its final outcome.
The two buildings I have chosen to study are from two great British architects whose work has inspired many up and coming architects; The Lloyd’s building in London, designed by Richard Rogers and built in 1986, which is the home of the insurance institution Lloyd’s of London, until now referred to as “the inside out building” for reasons that will be discussed later in this study. The other being a piece of architecture looked as the epitome of post-modernism, the Neue Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, which is an art museum designed by James Stirling.

ANALYSIS
Spatial Arrangement
When we look at how spaces are usually formed and arranged in architecture, first place that usually architects look to in their design process is structure. Structure plays a very huge part in organising space into place. Although space and